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President-Elect Grant Arrives in Washington By a “Surprise Flank March” Nov. 7, 1868

Rather than have a grand entry in Washington, President-elect Ulysses S. Grant arrived with little fanfare in the capital just four days after his election….

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Democratic Newspaper Wonders if Grant Still Antisemite in 1869

Grant’s order expelling the Jews from territory occupied by his army was issued in 1862, but more than six years later Democratic newspapers were still…

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Posted in Book Reviews Press

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran published by University of North Carolina Press (2013) 380 pages Hardcover $29.95 Kindle $17.49….

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Posted in Civil Rights Acts

When Ulysses S. Grant Barred Governmental Discrimination Against Blacks in the Nation’s Capital March 1869

On March 18, 1869 the new President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation eliminating the word “white” wherever it was used as a qualification for voting,…

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Posted in Elections Music

“Raise High the White Man’s Banner” Democratic Campaign Song August 1868

The great Democratic Ratification meeting in New Orleans was one of many state or city gatherings organized by local Democrats to ratify Horatio Seymour as…

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Posted in U.S. Grant White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

Grant Will Turn the South into “the howling wilderness of African barbarism” July 1868

Yesterday I posted an attack on U.S. Grant from the political left in which abolition activist Anna Dickinson went after Grant’s supposedly soft support for…

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Posted in Abolitionists U.S. Grant Women and Gender

Anna Dickinson: Don’t Hide Principles of Equality Behind Grant’s Cigar Smoke on Votes for Blacks June 1868

Anna Dickinson was a teen sensation as an abolitionist public speaker in the late 1850s. During the Civil War she became the first woman to…

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“Seymour & Blair-A White Man’s Government” & “Useless Grant” Democratic Slogans of 1868

In the 1868 Presidential Election, the Democratic Party’s Northern and Southern wings were reunited for the first time in eight years. The reunited party held…

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Posted in Book Reviews U.S. Grant

The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant by Charles W. Calhoun

The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (American Presidency Series) by Charles W. Calhoun published by the University Press of Kansas (2017) 39.95 Hardcover 24.88 Kindle. The…

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